Release of Renaissance, Volume V, Issue 4 Date: April 21, 2024 On April 21, we released our second issue exploring the theme – Divine in Nature. We hope our readers enjoyed going through the previous issue which dealt more with the philosophical basis for the topic. In this issue we turn our attention toward how […]
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Date: April 8, 2024 Venue: Pondicherry University Watch the Recording. On April 8, 2024, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver a talk at the Inauguration ceremony of an International Conference on ‘Future Communications: Rethinking Societies, Cultures and Governance’ organized by the Department of Electronic Media and Mass Communications, School of Media and Communications, Pondicherry
Date: March 29, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society “Flowers speak to us when we know how to listen to them; it is a subtle and fragrant language.” ~ The Mother Photo Gallery of the Event On March 29, 2024, the BhāratShakti and Renaissance Journal team organised a special programme as part of their two-month-long exploration
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Start date: November 23, 2023 End date: March 12, 2024 Venue: Pondicherry University On Siddhi Divas, November 24, 2023 we announced that under our ongoing partnership with Pondicherry University (the official MoU was signed in August 2023) we had launched a new post-graduate course on ‘Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo’. Much hard work by Dr.
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Date: March 6, 2024 The Renaissance journal team curated and conducted an interactive session with the college students and faculty of Tagore Govt. Arts and Science College, Pondicherry on the theme of Humour and Spirituality — Exploring how humour has been used as a method to impart spiritual wisdom. The initial planning was done by
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Date: 27 February 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Society Watch the Recording On 27th February, 2024, Renaissance team organised a special event at Sri Aurobindo Society to felicitate Sri Kiran Vyas Ji who was recently awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India. Sri Kiran Vyas is an ex-student of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of
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Date: March 4, 2024 Renaissance Journal team and Auropublications team invited Lopa Mukherjee for the second edition of their series – SAMVĀD which celebrates Authors, Books, and Booklovers. The programme was held on March 4, 2024 at the ground floor hall of Sri Aurobindo Society. Dr. Beloo Mehra, Editor, Renaissance Journal and Ms. Gayatri Majumdar,
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Date: February 26, 2024 Venue: Unity Pavillion, Auroville Watch the Recording with relevant images from the presentation. As part of the Shakti Kumbh 2024, a 9-day event held at Unity Pavilion, Auroville from February 21-29, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to speak on February 26 on the topic – Significance of Sri Aurobindo’s Symbol. The
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Date: February 26, 2024 A group of 10 students and 1 faculty member from Flame University, Pune visited Sri Aurobindo Society in the last week of February for a series of educational events and interactions. This visit was part of their ongoing research project on Integral Education. On behalf of Sri Aurobindo Society, SAFIER (Sri
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Date: 28 February, 2024 Venue: The Dorian House Writers Retreat, Auroville “I can only say generally avoid over-writing; let all your sentences be the vehicle of something worth saying and say it with a vivid precision neither defective nor excessive.” ~ Sri Aurobindo On February 28, 2024, Mr. Narendra Murty, Renaissance author and core team
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Date: February 11, 2024 Venue: Sri Aurobindo Uni(Di)versity, Aurovalley Ashram, Uttarakhand WATCH THE RECORDING HERE. On February 11, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to deliver a talk at a National Seminar held in Uttarakhand. The 2-day (Feb 11-12, 2024) National Seminar on Synthesis of Science and Spirituality for the Highest Welfare of Society was jointly
Date: January 17, 2024 A bilingual Webinar in English and Hindi was organised by Renaissance Journal Team on the theme of ‘Sri Rama in Indian Consciousness – Bharatiya Chetana Mein Sri Ram’ on 17th January, 2024. The whole webinar was conducted in a spirit of “Satsang” and with an aim to highlight in the light
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Date: January 11, 2024 As part of the Annual Youth Camp 2024 organised by AuroYouth, Dr. Beloo Mehra was invited to conduct an interactive session with the participants. The 1.5-hour-long session on January 11 focused on the topic ‘Rethinking Love and Relationships in a New Light’. Love and relationships are the root of all human
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In 2023, BhāratShakti through its Renaissance journal & Sri Aurobindo Integral Life Center (SAILC), Auro University, Surat joined hands to launch a year-long project titled ‘Kala evam Adhyatma’ (Art and Spirituality). Under the auspices of this project, the team organized an online series of Discourses on Art and Spirituality. Through this weekly series, the registered participants
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Date: 15 December 2023 Venue: Society House Watch the RECORDING. On 15th December, 2023, the Renaissance Journal along with Auropublications launched a new initiative titled SAMVĀD – A Series on Books, Authors and Booklovers. This initiative takes its guidance from the Mother who had encouraged the reading of carefully selected literature to cultivate our intelligence
Date: December 18, 2023 Venue: Pondicherry University As part of the ongoing post-graduate course at Pondicherry University, titled ‘Social Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo’, (read more about the course HERE). designed and taught by Dr. Beloo Mehra from Sri Aurobindo Society, a special lecture was proposed by Dr. Mehra to the Chair of Sri Aurobindo Studies
How does Indian cultural tradition look at the issue of man-woman equality? Are equality and freedom the only values of concern when it comes to an Indian view of feminism? What insights we can gain from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on this important topic concerning our individual and collective life in contemporary society? This
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This series of video lectures by Dr. Beloo Mehra integrates learnings from Indian cultural tradition and Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s teachings on the topic of right attitude towards money. These videos were recorded for PAAVAN app as part of its collaboration with Sri Aurobindo Society.
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